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Convention​
2022 Career Education Convention
​​The Career Education Convention brings together sector leaders and industry experts in one space. Held in late spring each year, the Career Education Convention is the largest gathering of private career education professionals nationwide. Year after year this event features top thought provoking keynote speakers, experts leading concurrent sessions and an environment to connect and network with others in the sector.

Join us in person for the 2022 Career Education Convention, we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!
Important Links
Mike Rowe, Jonathan Karl, and Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-4) 
​to keynote the 2022 Career Education Convention!
Registration
2022 Registration

Registration is open for the 2022 Career Education Convention! 

Need to receive approval to attend Convention? Download this letter as a suggested template to send to your supervisor! 
Registration Rates for CECU Members
CECU Member Registration
Regular Rate
​(March 2 - May 30)
Onsite Rate
​(May 31 - June 2)
School Representative
$845
$870
Allied Attendee
$945
​$970
Exhibitor Attendee*
$675
​$700
Daily Attendee
$545
$570
Guest Attendee**
$220
​$245
Group discounts available to CECU school members for groups over 5 attendees.
​For more information, contact Jessica Brown at 571-800-6521 or jessica.brown@career.org. 
Registration Rates for Nonmembers
Nonmember
​Registration
Regular Rate
​(March 2 - May 30)
Onsite Rate
​(May 31 - June 2)
School Representative
$1,045
$1,070
Allied Attendee
$1,145
$1,170
Exhibitor Attendee*
$875
​$900
Daily Attendee
$745
$770
Guest Attendee**
$220
​$245
Cancellation Policy: Registration fees will be refunded only if written notice of cancellation is received at CECU on or before April 15, 2022. Due to COVID-19, CECU will allow attendees to cancel for a full refund, without penalty through April 15, 2022, and no refund will be made for cancellation after April 15, 2022. Please note that this cancellation policy applies only to attendees. Please see the the exhibitor page for information regarding booth cancellations. 

Payments: All attendee registration payments are due to CECU by May 15, 2022. Checks can be mailed to 1530 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1050, Arlington, VA 22209. Please refer to the exhibit hall page for dates related to exhibit booth registration.

*Each 10x10 booth includes two complimentary exhibitor attendees. Exhibitors will receive a discount code to register attendees with.
**Guest registrants will only be granted access to the exhibit hall for evening receptions.
Agenda
2022 Agenda
Time
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
12:00 - 6:00 pm
Registration open: 3rd Floor MGM Conference Center
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Opening Exhibit Hall Reception
​Entertainment provided by LeadSquared
Bar sponsored by Niche
Time
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
8:00 - 8:45am
Networking Breakfast: Exhibit Hall
9:00 - 10:30 am
Welcome
Keynote Session: Live Recording of the Career Education Report Podcast featuring
​Dr. Jason Altmire and Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-04)
10:45 - 11:45 am
Concurrent Sessions
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Networking Lunch: Exhibit Hall
​For Profits for a Purpose Volunteer Event, sponsored by Elsevier 
​Entertainment provided by LeadSquared
CECU Government Relations Update | 12:30 PM near Booth 315
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Coffee Break
Sponsored by Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Keynote Session: Jonathan Karl
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Various Session Options
Concurrent Sessions
​Emerging Leaders Reception sponsored by Level Agency
CEO Session sponsored by Duane Morris, invite only
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Networking Reception: Exhibit Hall
​​Entertainment provided by LeadSquared
Bar sponsored by Niche
Time
Thursday, June 2, 2022
8:00 - 8:45am
Networking Breakfast: Exhibit Hall
9:00 - 10:00 am
Concurrent Sessions
10:15 - 11:00 am
CECU Meeting of the Members, all attendees welcome
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Keynote Session: Mike Rowe
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Networking Lunch: Exhibit Hall
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Coffee Break
Sponsored by Becker Media
2:45 - 4:00 pm
​ CECU Update & Our Sector in the States
​4:00 - 6:00 pm
Networking Reception
Keynote Speakers
2022 Keynote Speakers
MIKE ROWE  |  June 2, 2022  |  11:00 AM
From the Baltimore Opera to QVC shopping channel, executive producer, host, best-selling author, and chart-topping recording artist Mike Rowe has had hundreds of jobs and relished his role as a chronic freelancer. He's best known as the "dirtiest man on TV," a title he earned on the iconic TV series Dirty Jobs. Today, you can join Mike for a romp through history on the discovery+ series Six Degrees as he uncovers the surprising connections between two disparate things and shows how everything in our crazy world is connected. You can also listen to him on The Way I Heard It, where he tells short stories you don’t know about people you do know and shares intimate conversations with fascinating folks from his own life and career; read his New York Times best-selling book The Way I Heard It, a mix of biography and auto-biography based on his popular podcast; or watch him on the show Somebody's Gotta Do It on TBN or Pure Flix. In what can only be described as an envelope mix-up, Mike won an Emmy for his work on Facebook's groundbreaking series Returning the Favor. As the country's leading advocate for skilled labor and the CEO of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity that debunks myths and misperceptions about the trades and helps close the skills gap, his foundation has granted millions of dollars in work ethic scholarships. In his spare time, Mike keeps a lively conversation with more than 8 million friends on social media, where he talks about everything from the musings of his persnickety terrier named Freddy to the merits and pitfalls of blind patriotism.
​The Mike Rowe keynote session was made possible by an exclusive sponsorship with CourseKey, who has partnered with the CECU team to bring Mike to the event. ​
JONATHAN KARL  |  June 1, 2022  |  2:45 PM
Jonathan Karl is ABC News chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He is also the President of the White House Correspondents' Association and author of the forthcoming book "Front Row at the Trump Show" (March 2020). Karl has broad experience covering U.S. politics, foreign policy and the military, and has reported from more than 30 countries. His reporting drives news cycles and has been recognized with some of the most prestigious honors in journalism, including the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement and the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for Congressional reporting. He is also one of the few journalists to win the Radio and TV Correspondents' Association's Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based reporting twice, in 2010 and 2015. He won an Emmy® Award for coverage of the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama. Karl was named The Tyndall Report’s most used reporter in 2017 and 2018, logging more airtime than any other network reporter for the first two years of the Trump presidency. Karl has covered every major beat in Washington, including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the State Department.  Read More
CONGRESSMAN BURGESS OWENS (UT-04) June 1, 2022  |  9:00 AM
Burgess Owens is the Congressman from Utah’s Fourth Congressional District. Born in the segregated South, he saw people of all backgrounds come together to work tirelessly against adversity. As a young man, Burgess was one of the first four black athletes recruited to play football at the University of Miami and the third black student there to receive a scholarship. He was the 13th pick in the first round of the 1973 NFL draft and joined the New York Jets, later playing safety for ten seasons in the NFL for the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, winning the Superbowl with the 1980 Raiders’ team. After retiring from the NFL, Burgess worked in the corporate sales world and eventually moved the Owens family to beautiful Utah. Before being elected to Congress, he started Second Chance 4 Youth, a non-profit dedicated to helping troubled and incarcerated youth. Burgess now serves as a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and House Judiciary Committee. Burgess believes in dreaming big and follows the four guiding principles of faith, family, free markets, and education. Read More
Sessions​
Sessions
​The 2022 Career Education Convention Sessions have been finalized and are listed below. Full session descriptions will be emailed to Convention attendees by mid-April. If you are still considering attending and want to hear more about these sessions, please email events@career.org.

Thank you to all of our presenters!
Campus Development Sessions
  • 2,000,000,001 Reasons to Refresh Your Admissions Strategy
  • A Provocative Conversation About the Future of Proprietary Higher Ed
  • Implementing Digital Transformation and Academic Technology at Scale
  • The Building Blocks to Results
  • The Future of Admissions Assessment
  • ​The Luckiest Game Show On the Strip
  • Thrive Online: Engaging Students in a Blended Environment
  • Well-Being in 2022 - Will We Ever Get Caught Up?
Government Relations Sessions
  • All New Title IX Regulations: Analysis and Practical Advice for Compliance
  • Borrower Defense to Repayment: What You Need to Know Now
  • CFPB Update: Priorities for Institutions of Higher Education & Beyond
  • Changes in Change of Ownership
  • Fiscal and Operational Impacts of Latest ED Rulemaking: Everything Old is New Again, and More 
  • Gainful Employment 3.0: A Hard Look at ED's Proposal
  • HEERF Audit Guide / Proprietary School Audit Guide updates
  • Joint and Several Liability for Owners: Should I sign that Program Participation Agreement?
  • New Compliance Challenges Posed by Negotiated Rulemaking, the CFPB, and the FTC
  • Oversight and Fighting Fraud in a Pandemic: A Briefing by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General
  • Preparing for student loan repayment: The latest information and insight about federal student loan payment resumption
  • The FTC’s Initiative on Institutional Marketing Practices—What You Need to Know 
  • What your institution needs to know in the rapidly changing privacy and data security regulatory landscape
Marketing Outreach Sessions
  • 2 Fast 2 Furious - 30 Marketing Tips in 60 minutes, round 2
  • Ag Day - Increasing the love of trades through HS partnerships
  • Demystifying the World of Workforce Development...
  • Driving Enrollment with Hypothesis-Driven Marketing
  • Your Roadmap to Achieve Ambitious Enrollment Goals 
Sponsorship​
Sponsorships

Thank you to the 2022 Career Education Convention Sponsors! Please check out our sponsors by clicking the link below!
If you are interested in sponsoring the 2022 Convention, please contact Kelley Blanchard at kelley.blanchard@career.org or 571-970-6471.

CECU's Sponsors play a vital role in successfully executing CECU’s programs, events and communication initiatives. As a Sponsor, your organization has high-profile exposure with top education leaders in the field. The information below serves as our initial thinking about how we can work together to support your work with our institutions. We want to be flexible and innovative in working with you to create a sponsorship package that is best for your organization. View this as a starting point of a discussion, not a final destination.
Exhibitors
​2022 Exhibit Booth Information
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​
Thank you to our 2022 Career Education Convention Exhibitors! Be sure to check out our exhibiting partners listed below!

The 2022 exhibit hall is currently sold out. If you are interested in exhibiting or putting your name on the waitlist, please email jessica.brown@career.org. 
​Academy of Lymphatic Studies
Advance 360 Education
​AllHeart Group Solutions
Almich & Associates
Alston & Bird
Ambassador Education Solutions
AMCA
Anthology
​ApexChat
Auxicent
​Becker Media
​BibliU
Campus Cafe Software
Campus Ivy
Candid Maven​
CareerEdge, LLC
Case Sabatini, CPAs and Auditors
CBRE
Celsius Marketing Interactive
Cengage
​ChatDrive
Cobbs Allen
CARS
Collegiate Housing Services
​Colliers
CompTIA
​Conext
CourseKey
Cyanna Education Services
Cygnus Education
DJA Financial Aid Services, Inc.
ECSI
EducationDynamics
EdwardsSchoen
Elsevier
​EMSI Burning Glass
Encoura
Enrollment Resources
​Esyoh
FAME
Financial Aid Services & Genesis
GEMCOR, Inc
Generation Marketing
Global Financial Aid Services
Gragg Advertising
G-W Publisher
HigherEdJobs
​Imagine America Foundation
JetSpring
Jones & Bartlett Learning
LeadSquared
Level Agency
Macmillan Learning
​McClintock & Associates
McGraw Hill
MDT Marketing
Meera.ai by Mantra Digital
Mujo Learning Systems​​
​NHA
NCCER
NCCT
Niche
Norton Norris, Inc.
​NurseThink
Olezka
OneWorldSIS
Orbund
Pathway Labs​
Pearson
​Sallie Mae
​Sikich
SST Accountants & Consultants
Student Connections
Swift Transportation
TFC Tuition
The Art of Admissions
The Virtual Care Group
TJS Deemer Dana LLP
Trajecsys
Tuition Options
Vector Careers
Verity
Visible Body
Weworski & Associates
Wright International Student Services​​
More information for exhibiting companies and potential exhibiting companies below!

​Why Exhibit? The Career Education Convention is the largest event in the postsecondary career education sector. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with leaders in the sector. We have planned several food and beverage functions that will take place in the exhibit hall to maximize foot traffic and opportunities to actively engage with attendees.
DID YOU KNOW?
​​On average, attendance increases 9%* when conventions rotate into Las Vegas. Research also shows that attendees spend more time in meetings and on the trade show floor when programs are held in Las Vegas!

*2020 data, www.vegasmeansbusiness.com
Exhibit hall schedule
Exhibit Hall Schedule
  • Tuesday, May 31st: Opening Reception 4:30 - 6:30pm
  • Wednesday, June 2st: 8:00am - 7:00pm
  • Thursday, June 2nd: 8:00am - 1:30pm
Booth Registration Rates & Details
CECU Member Exhibit Booth Rates
Early
(through February 1)
Regular
(February 2 - May 31)
10x10 Booth
$2,850
$3,050
10x20 Booth
$5,250
$5,550
20x20 Booth*
$10,050
$10,550
Nonmember ​Exhibit Booth Rates
Early
(through February 1)
Regular
(February 2 - May 31)
10x10 Booth
$4,050
$4,550
10x20 Booth*
$7,450
$7,950
20x20 Booth*
$15,050
$15,800
In Person Booth Details: 
  • Through exhibit registration you will be able to book a 10x10 booth . If you are interested in securing a larger booth please contact us directly so we can assist you. You can reach us at events@career.org or 571-800-6521.
  • All in-person booths include 2 in-person attendee registrations, per 10x10 booth. This discount code will be emailed with the booth registration confirmation. 
information for  exhibitors
Thank you to our Exhibitors for supporting the CECU Convention. If you are an exhibiting company, please click the link below for details about the exhibit hall, information due to CECU, the exhibitor kit and more.

For questions, please contact us at events@career.org. 
Exhibit Hall Floor plan
Cancellations and Refunds: In the event of cancellation of the Convention due to fire, strikes, government regulation or other causes beyond CECU control, CECU shall not be liable for failure to hold the Convention as scheduled, and CECU shall determine the amount of exhibit fees to be refunded. Due to COVID-19, CECU will allow booths to cancel for a full refund, without penalty through April 1, 2022, and no refund will be made for cancellation after April 1, 2022. In the event that the meeting is canceled, all registrations and exhibit fees will be refunded or adjusted to account for a virtual event.​
Hotel & Travel
2022 Hotel & Travel Information

​All conference general sessions, workshops, and exhibit space will be convened at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. CECU has partnered with the MGM Grand to provide reduced group rate pricing for annual convention attendees. Please support the Career Education Convention by staying at a conference hotel.

MGM Grand
3799 S Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(877) 880-0880
The hotel block deadline has passed, all hotel reservations and rates going forward are based on availability. 
United Airline Flight Discount
​We are pleased to partner with United Airlines for air travel to our upcoming event.
  • To make flight reservations online please click on discount code ZKUN444563.
  • MileagePlus members earn Premier Qualifying Dollars and miles for their travel.

For questions regarding this partnership, please call United Meeting Reservation Desk at (800) 426 – 1122
  • Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time
  • Saturday – Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Health & Safety
CECU will continue to monitor COVID-19 and all federal, state, and local recommendations/requirements in order to produce an enjoyable but safe event for all involved. As we approach the event dates we will update attendees on recommendations, requirements, and other important information related to COVID-19.

MGM Resorts is committed to ongoing engagement with medical experts as well as federal, state, and local officials for the health and safety of their guests and employees. To read more about the efforts and initiatives they have taken, click here.
Parking Information
3799 Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Nevada residents receive up to 3 hours complimentary parking with valid NV driver license at exit gate, except during special events.
Parking Duration
Fee
0 - 60 minutes
No Charge
1 - 4 hours
$12
4- 24 hours
$15
Over 24 hours
​and each additional day or fraction thereof
$15
Top reasons to extend your stay & enjoy Vegas!

It's been a challenging couple of years and you've worked hard to adapt and overcome challenges never seen before. Build in some time to relax by the pools at MGM Grand or schedule some decompression time at the Grand Spa!


​Vegas features some of the world's top chefs. You'll find amazing cuisine all along the strip but be sure to check out the garden terrace table at Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand. The five-course tasting menu at this three-Michelin-star restaurant is out of this world. Order wine pairings for added pizzazz.

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Whether it's you 1st or 101st time to Vegas, there is always something new to experience - new musical performances, comedy shows, Cirque Du Soleil shows, the roller coaster on top of New York, New York, or just walking the strip to people watch... you don't have to look far to be entertained!
Hotel Booking Disclaimer: Please Note: CECU has not given any third parties permission to block, reserve, or book hotel reservations on their behalf. If you receive inquiries from a third party to book hotel reservations, this constitutes an interference with CECU’s contractual agreement with the hotel. In addition, CECU has no recourse for reservations made through a third party. These inquiries are misleading solicitations to CECU’s attendees and exhibitors, which are not authorized by CECU. These companies have no affiliation with CECU. Please do not respond to these attempts. All CECU endorsed and negotiated housing options are posted here on our website.
Give Back
For Profits for a Purpose

This year, CECU is partnering with Elsevier and ​​Spread the Word Nevada℠ to give back to the local community in Las Vegas.

Spread the Word Nevada℠ is dedicated to advancing childhood literacy within low-income communities by inspiring children, one book at a time. With your help, we can continue to advance our mission of helping at-risk children by providing them with books to treasure for a lifetime. We believe that the power of reading is life-changing, and when we work together, we can accomplish great things.
Thank you to Elsevier for sponsoring this activation at Convention!
Interested in becoming more involved or contributing at the company level?
​Please contact us at events@career.org or 571-800-6521.
Contact Us
Contact Us

If you have any questions related to the CECU Convention please don't hesitate to reach out!

General questions, registration, exhibitors, concurrent sessions
Jessica Brown
jessica.brown@career.org
571-800-6521

Sponsorships, keynote speakers
Kelley Blanchard
kelley.blanchard@career.org
571-970-6471


​Annual Convention
May 31 - June 2, 2022
MGM Grand
Las Vegas, NV
Event will be held in-person

Thank you to our Sponsors!